It does not matter. The main thing is that it clearly marks a block of 5.
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It is not true to say that people don't use tally marks often - they do!
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Tally marks are a type of counting using vertical lines. One line means one, two means two, three means three, four means four, and then for the fifth line, it would go diagonal across the previous four lines, which would be five.
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The tally marks I'm familiar with cannot have negative numbers because they are used to count real things and there cannot be a negative apple
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It's just a line. One tally mark= | They are meant to keep score and then the 5th tally mark goes diagonal/across the first 4 marks